phantasmatic
- adjective
- /fænˈtæzmætɪk/
- Literature
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fantasmático
- Her phantasmatic visions of the future were filled with vibrant colors and surreal landscapes.
Examples
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When Charles falls in love with what he thinks he sees of Anna on the roundabout, he sets into motion a chain of events designed to recreate or perpetuate the phantasmatic desire.
Fiction book (1996) -
It was, even for the people who journeyed to Rome to visit it, more phantasmatic than real.
Academic text (2006) -
The writing channels identity's effluvia, so much phantasmatic excess, so many voices that won't submit.
Blog text (25) -
In translating his art to the stage, however, Genet risks not being able to represent the violent and phantasmatic possession that occurs in the fiction, and risks not being able to get the actor's body to hold such a representation.
Academic text (1996) -
In the radio drama version, the protagonist is simply laughing, and the phantasmatic dimension of his embodiment as a linguistic reservoir of gender and other stereotypes is reduced to realistic action.
Academic text (2009) -
Epoch of the saltimbanks, the phantasmatic political chroniclers (Robertson) who borrow the luminous transport of images.
Academic text (2004) -
Here it is: at the end of the vast network of correlations activated by Zeno's phantasmatic and powerful locomotive, Zeno is projected toward the future as the bearer of an inner and personal truth, which is also multiple, encyclopedic, and open: a Triestine truth, we might say.
Academic text (1995) -
In its construction of a phantasmatic space in which the traumatic story of John's birth is overtly fictionalized, the scene alludes to the familiar tenet that trauma can only be known or represented indirectly through its narrativization.
Academic text (2008) -
On the other hand, there is the understanding of pornography, for example, simply in terms of the reduction of sexuality to the body moved and seduced by the image and by the machine—as if sexual activity does not always have about it both an element of the mechanical and an element of the representational, elements of the automatistic and the phantasmatic.
Academic text (1997) -
The dream felt so phantasmatic that I questioned whether it was real or just an illusion.
Synonyms
81
7.0
Strange like a dream and not real
40
4.7
Having a pale, quiet look that feels scary
28
4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
21
8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
14
8.7
Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
12
7.0
Seeming to be real but not really there
9
5.7
Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep
5
7.5
Looking like a ghost and causing fear
5
8.8
That makes someone see or hear things that are not real
1
6.5
Having a pale, thin, and quiet appearance that feels spooky
1
9.9
Looking like a ghost and seeming unreal
1
9.9
Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
1
9.9
Looks like a strange dream with changing images
1
9.9
Having the look or feel of a ghost
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Appears like a ghost, not solid or easy to see
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Etymology
The word phantasmatic comes from the older word phantasm, and is like phantom, both meaning a 'ghost' or 'an image you see in a dream'. So, phantasmatic describes something that looks or feels 'unreal' and 'dreamlike'.